after shooting some geese and ducks, of which they made a repast, they went in search of seed-corn, and gathered to the amount of ten bushels. The ground was covered with snow, but the cellars were known by the heaps of sand, and the frozen earth was penetrated with their swords. This corn, and a quantity of beans preserved in the same manner, they took on the same condition as before, and the natives were paid for it six months after, by Governor Bradford. The acquisition of this corn was always regarded as a particular favor of divine Providence, without which the colony could not have subsisted. Captain Jones returned in the shallop with the corn, and fifteen of the weakest of the party. The eighteen who remained, marched further into the woods, and discovered a mound of earth, which was found to contain only human bones, with such arms, utensils and ornaments, as are usually deposited in Indian

Acquisition, s.; the act of acquiring; the thing gained.. tensil, s.; an instrument for use.

graves; and not far distant, two deserted wigwams, with their furniture, and also some preserved venison.

On the arrival of the shallop, they returned to the ship on the first of December. During their absence, a child was born on board the ship, and named Peregrine.* After a consultation, it was agreed that Governor Carver, with nine of the principal men, should go out in the shallop round the bay, to find a proper place for settlement, and on the sixth of December they set out. The weather was so cold that the spray of the sea froze on their coats, encasing them with ice like coats of iron. They sailed by the eastern shore of the bay as they judged six or seven leagues, until they saw a "tongue of land," now called Billingsgate Point, west of Wellfleet harbor. They bore up to gain the point, and as they came near the shore, they saw ten or twelve Indians, cutting up

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Peregrine White. He possessed a remarkably vigorous constitution, which he retained to old age, and died at Marshfield, Mass., 22 July, 1704, æ. 83.

a grampus, who, on sight of them fled, carrying with them the pieces of the fish. They landed at the distance of a league or more, with difficulty, on account of the flat sands, and built a barricado, and placing sentinels around them, they laid down to rest. The next morning, they divided themselves into two parties, eight in the shallop, and the rest on shore, for further discovery. To the bay, they gave the name of Grampus Bay, because they saw there many fish of that species. They tracked the Indians on the sand, and found a path into the woods, which they followed a great way, until they came to old corn fields, and a spacious burying-ground, enclosed with pales. At the close of the day they came back to meet the shallop, and all but six, who remained on board, slept on shore under cover of a barricade and a guard.

The next morning, Dec. 8, at dawn of

Grampus, s.; a kind of whale.--Barricado, s.; a foration.-Pale, s.; a fence made of pieces of wood en into the ground.

day, they were surprised with the war-cry of the natives, and a flight of arrows. They seized their arms, and on the first discharge of musketry, the Indians all fled but one stout man, who stood three shots behind a tree, and then retired, as they supposed, wounded. They took up eighteen arrows, headed either with brass, deer's horns, or birds' claws, which they sent as a present to their friends in England. As they were sailing further along the coast, a storm came on, their rudder broke, the masts sprung, and the sails fell overboard. In this piteous situation, steering with two oars, the wind and tide carried them into a cove, and it being dark, they were in imminent danger. At this critical moment, a stout seaman who was steering, called to them to put about, and row hard, and this effort happily brought them into a fair sound, and under a point of land, where they came safely to anchor.

War-ery, s.; a hideous cry made by the Indians as a signal of attack.-Rudder, s.; the instrument at the stern or hinder part of a vessel by which its course is governed.

About midnight, the severity of the weather made it necessary that they should go on shore and kindle a fire, which they did, and rested in safety. In the morning they found themselves on a small, uninhabited island, which has ever since been called Clark's Island, from the name of the first man, (the mate of the ship,) who stepped on shore. Here they staid all the next day, drying their clothes, cleaning their fire arms, and repairing their shallop. The following day being sabbath, they rested.

On Monday, Dec. 11, corresponding to Dec. 22, N. S., they surveyed and sounded the bay, which they described to be a good harbor for shipping, containing two small

N. S., New Style. This New Style took place in 1752. The year which had previously been considered as beginning on the 25 of March, after this time began on the first of January. The 3 of September was now dated the 14, eleven days being stricken out of the calendar. This reformation of the calendar, rendered necessary by the precession of the equinox, had been made by Pope Gregory XIII., in 1582; but though it was readily embraced in all Roman Catholic countries, Protestants were slow to receive the improvement, however useful, from the Pope of Rome.